Weather architecture
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Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although acknowledging the influence of the client, contractor and engineer, the relations between the designer, user and weather are the focus of this book. Environmental discussions in architecture tend(...)
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Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although acknowledging the influence of the client, contractor and engineer, the relations between the designer, user and weather are the focus of this book. Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Rather than investigate architecture's relations to the weather in isolation, they are integrated into a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture. The analysis of weather's effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society, leading to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary responses to climate change.
Architectural Theory
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
Réflexions sur l'architecture
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Les sept études de cette publication prétendent montrer et étudier la condition du legs architectural grec dans l'époque moderne. Elles s'attachent à quelques réalisations, projets et traités choisis d'après leurs vertus exemplaires: ceux de Palladio, J. Peret, F. Blondel, Fischer von Erlach et Napoli.
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Kissing architecture
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Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being(...)
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Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being designed and built into architectural surfaces and interior spaces today.
Architectural Theory
Contre l'architecture
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Contre l’Architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples, New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a perdu de vue le(...)
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Contre l’Architecture est une charge érudite contre l'esprit dans lequel travaillent les grands architectes. A travers une multitude d'exemples, New York, Tirana, Barcelone, ou encore Paris et ses banlieues, l'auteur stigmatise les fourvoiements d'une profession qui, selon lui, a dénaturé sa fonction. L'architecture est devenue un jeu formel où l'on a perdu de vue le bien public, ce qui est désastreux pour la ville et ses habitants. Franco La Cecla s’insurge contre la transformation des villes en « marques » labellisées, et insiste sur la nécessité de repenser l’espace urbain et les pratiques architecturales afin de protéger et d’améliorer nos conditions de vie. La crise des banlieues, la détérioration de l'environnement, l'épuisement des ressources, tout devrait nous pousser à réagir pour éviter que nos villes deviennent inhabitables.
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Against architecture
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With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the “archistars.” Francesco La Clecla argues that architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars mold(...)
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With insight into the human side of architecture, this critical assessment displays the shortcomings of modern urban planning as an acclaimed architect issues a passionate charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world: the “archistars.” Francesco La Clecla argues that architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars mold cityscapes to build their brand with no regard for the public good. More than a diatribe against the trade, the author makes a call to rethink urban space and take the cities back from “casino capitalism” that has left a string of failed urban projects, such as the Sagrera of Barcelona and the expansion of Columbia University in New York City. Recounting his travels across the globe, La Cecla provides insights to aid in resisting the planners and to find the spirit of a place.
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L'architecture des limites
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hitecture des limites présente 45 édifices construits dans des milieux inhospitaliers qui témoignent de ces limites de l'architecture. D'un refuge dans le désert de l'Arizona à un centre de recherches marines flottant, d'un " coffre à graines " norvégien à une station scientifique du pôle Sud, chacun des projets présentés comporte un tableau rappelant l'altitude, les(...)
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hitecture des limites présente 45 édifices construits dans des milieux inhospitaliers qui témoignent de ces limites de l'architecture. D'un refuge dans le désert de l'Arizona à un centre de recherches marines flottant, d'un " coffre à graines " norvégien à une station scientifique du pôle Sud, chacun des projets présentés comporte un tableau rappelant l'altitude, les précipitations et les températures moyennes du site. Un choix de photographies, complété de croquis, de plans et de rendus informatiques, permet de restituer le projet dans son environnement. L'ouvrage est divisé en cinq chapitres : chaleur, froid, altitude, eau, espace.
Experimentale architecture
Fabricating architecture
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This concise reader brings together twelve key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term digital design. With essays by critics, theorists, and architects such as Martin Bechthold, Achim Menges, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, and Kiel Moe, Digital Design and Manufacturing represents contemporary digital design thinking in architecture.
Fabricating architecture
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This concise reader brings together twelve key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term digital design. With essays by critics, theorists, and architects such as Martin Bechthold, Achim Menges, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, and Kiel Moe, Digital Design and Manufacturing represents contemporary digital design thinking in architecture.
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Earth architecture
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Author Ronald Rael, founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use ram-med earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new,(...)
Earth architecture
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Author Ronald Rael, founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use ram-med earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet.
Green Architecture
L'architecture du bonheur
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Réflexion sur l'architecture des lieux où nous vivons et travaillons. En quoi le cadre de vie influence-t-il notre mode de pensée, notre façon de nous comporter, notre existence au quotidien ? De Paris à Tokyo, du Kent à l'Engadine, l'auteur évoque les idéaux architecturaux et les met en relation avec les lieux où il fait bon vivre.
L'architecture du bonheur
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Réflexion sur l'architecture des lieux où nous vivons et travaillons. En quoi le cadre de vie influence-t-il notre mode de pensée, notre façon de nous comporter, notre existence au quotidien ? De Paris à Tokyo, du Kent à l'Engadine, l'auteur évoque les idéaux architecturaux et les met en relation avec les lieux où il fait bon vivre.
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Ice architecture
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Ice Architecture presents the most innovative projects that illustrate the success of contemporary architects in mastering the challenges of building in extremely cold zones. The volume presents the work of architects working in this field, graphically accompanied by numerous photographs and plans, providing a fascinating glimpse into the world of ice architecture.
Ice architecture
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Ice Architecture presents the most innovative projects that illustrate the success of contemporary architects in mastering the challenges of building in extremely cold zones. The volume presents the work of architects working in this field, graphically accompanied by numerous photographs and plans, providing a fascinating glimpse into the world of ice architecture.
Contemporary Architecture